One-Hit Wonder

Obama is the Flock of Seagulls of political oratory.

By

James Taranto

June 15, 2012

(Best of the tube tonight: Catch us tonight on "Lou Dobbs Tonight," 7 and 10 p.m. ET on Fox Business.) We almost wish President Obama's speech yesterday hadn't been so dull and interminable. It sounds as though, by tuning out before he was finished, we missed some amusing commentary on MSNBC.

"I thought this honestly was one of the least successful speeches I've seen Barack Obama give in several years," the Daily Caller quotes Bloomberg's Jonathan Alter as saying. "It was long-winded. He had a...